“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Bnei Brak & Yerushalyim lead in number of coronavirus patients in Israel

The cities of Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, with their many Charedi (ultra-Orthodox) residents, lead the nation in numbers of coronavirus patients with 267 and 352 respectively, Channel 12 reported on Friday.  
 
It is thought that a small minority among the community finds it difficult to adjust to the new Health Ministry regulations as they forbid mass prayer, large weddings and studying in big groups – all of which are vital to the Charedi way of life.  
 
The largely secular city of Tel Aviv, that has more than double the number of residents than Bnei Brak, is tied for second with 267 patients. This despite social media posts alleging that the residents of the first Hebrew city are lax in their social distancing and can’t give up their daily jogs and drinking coffee at the beach.  
 
On Hebrew social media, a great deal of anger was expressed at some Tel Avivians for allegedly for not caring about the well being of the elderly, who are much more vulnerable to coronavirus, and insensitivity to the great number of people who are facing unemployment now due to the COVID-19 impact on the world economy.  
 
Such ideas seem to predate the virus. Israelis often imagine Tel Aviv as being a city which is slightly hedonistic and self-absorbed like other cities in the world – such as Paris or New York are imagined in certain ways in France and the US.  
 
Ashkelon is number four with 78 patients, Bat Yam was ranked five with 51 patients, Efrat and Haifa had 44 patients, and Beersheba had 43 patients. 
 
The small Jewish religious community of Kiryat Ye'arim outside of Jerusalem had a local outbreak with 30 patients reported so far. Beitar Elit had 23 patients and Zikhron Ya'akov was at the bottom with 12 patients.
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List of Boro Park Shuls Still Open as of Friday Afternnoon


List of shuls in Boro Park Still Open 
These are the Rodfim ... and Rozchim of Our Brothers & Sisters 
Satmar 52 - 1364 52nd St 

Skver - 4716 17th Ave

 Satmar 49 - 1352 49th St. 

Spinka - 5111 18th Ave 

Bistritz 5202 12th Ave 

Beis Chaim Shia - 4911 17th Ave 

Burshteen 5610 12th Ave 

Rubeditch 1535 49th St.

Skver 12 - 5323 12th Ave

 Vien - 972 45th St. 

Tarnipal - 163 Parkville Ave 

Koson 906 50th St.

 Sadovna - 1424 51st St.

 Ungvar - 5306-12 16th Ave




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NYC coronavirus cases reach nearly 30K, with a death every 9.5 minutes

Troubling new data released Saturday shows the death rate from coronavirus sharply accelerating in the Big Apple, with one person dying every 9.5 minutes in the last 24 hours.
At least 67 more people died overnight from COVID-19, bringing the death toll for the five boroughs to 517, new numbers released by the city reveal.
The new figures reveal that 151 people died since the same time early Friday — revealing an even deadlier toll per minute compared to the Thursday to Friday evening calculation of one death every 17 minutes.
The total number of infected in the city rose to 29,158, up by 2,461 overnight.
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Dr Mark Allen Respler Succumbs to Corona

 Dr. Mark Allen Respler Z”L, a well-known urologist who lived in Boro Park died from Corona. 
He was in his mid sixties.
Dr. Respler worked at Ahava Medical & Rehabilitation Center. He leaves behind a wife – 
Dr. Yael Respler who is  well-known psychotherapist – and four children.
He was Niftar on Friday morning.
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Sasregen Shul in Flatbush To Dr Stuart Ditchek .... "Go To Hell"


Dr Stuart Ditchek, the one on the front lines of that dreaded virus, drove by the Sasregen Shul on 24th Street and Avenue M this week,, where the big "machers" daven and saw to his astonishment that there were minyanim there ..."like nothing happened."

So he went into the shul asking to speak to the Holy Rebbe .... 
Some bigshot "attorney"shoved him out the door... and told him in front of the Aron Koidesh and in front of the "machers" with tefillin on their heads ...to 
"Go to Hell"

The "machers" are confident that the virus won't dare infect them... after all they are the "Sasregen Machers"....

However, someone should tell the Rebbe of Sasragen ....
that the Malach Hamovas doesn't give a damn how big their homes are ..... it can infect anyone from the homeless old lady on the streets of Bankok to the Fancy shaven guy with the bekesha....

One never knows who is going to "go to hell" first!

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Making Children Sing In Israel During the Virus........ Watch

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When the Heart Cries .....When the Heart Goes Silent.. The Soul Screams



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"Red Eyes" Telltale Sign Of Corona Virus

 A new symptom of the coronavirus has emerged which could aid in identifying patients with the contagious disease.  

Nurse Chelsey Earnest is a life care worker who was called in to help at the Life Care Center in Kirkland,Washington which has been hardest hit by COVID-19, with 36 patients and one visitor having died at the facility. Earnest told CNN that as she worked with coronavirus patients, she began to notice that the sickest ones had a single thing in common.

“It’s something that I witnessed in all of them,” Earnest said. “They have, like … allergy eyes. The white part of the eye is not red. It’s more like they have red eye shadow on the outside of their eyes. But we’ve had patients who’ve just had the red eyes as the only symptom we saw and they go to go the hospital and pass away,” ”
Rapid breathing and a cough were the other two hallmarks, she said. But to a person, everyone infected with coronavirus at the Kirkland care facility that proved to the be outbreak’s epicenter in Washington State had the distinct “red eye” look of allergy sufferers, nurses recounted Tuesday to CNN.
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